Hi everybody, I'm hard at work to resolve the startup problem on older systems, as well as to add joypad support to the Linux version.
In the meantime we released a small patch with the following improvements suggested by the community:

1) Improved Keyboard controls
2) Increase deadly fall height (he's a feline after all)
3) Solved slowdown issue in Sewers section by temporarily disabling mud pipes
4) Improved intro music

More to come, stay tuned!

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Quoting: BlackBloodRumI put a request in. :dizzy:

If you mean a support request/feedback, I can't see anything - where did you send it?
Cool to have a Gentoo tester!

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"Bespoke" and "In-house" are both very good.
What about "Handcrafted"? Might sound more wholesome to non-technical people.

Stay tuned, I'm planning to push an update to Steam today with a bunch of fixes/improvements that hopefully will solve most of the problems you guys reported!

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Thanks everybody, this is precisely the type of feedback we were looking for! Keep it coming :D
Sounds like GLIBC compatibility is the main problem at the moment (silly of me to overlook it).
We'll definitely improve the readability of text/icons on smaller screens, and regarding the Steam Deck Controls / Joypads in general, I'm working on Steam Input integration as we speak.

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Quoting: tfkFirst test done on a i7 6700, 16GB, NVIDIA 4060ti. Fedora 39 KDE spin. No issues. Left my feedback in game.

Next test will be on my AMD 6800XT system.

Cheers, I received both of your in-game feedbacks. A bit puzzling that with the 6800XT it slows down - it runs pretty smoothly on my 6500XT which is supposed to be slower :/

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Quoting: pastayahello guys i did some testing and game installs but no game window shows? i tried using proton and didnt work, tried protonfixes and didnt work. What should i do?

Hello :)
The game does not need Proton, as it runs natively on Linux. Did you try it with the specs that you have here under "View PC Info"? If you use Discord you can join our server here [External Link] for faster troubleshooting.
Thanks!

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Quoting: ShabbyXBasicaly what it tells me (gamer), is that I should expect bugs, rough edges and issues with buggy drivers.

That's a good point :/

Besides, it was hopeless from the start... how can a CatKiller like a game about a feline? :grin:

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Quoting: CatKillerWhat you should do is avoid the use of the word "proprietary," since that has a specific (different to the one you're thinking of) meaning...

Yes, I am aware that the same word has different meanings in different contexts. For example, "Proprietary engine" in game development is a normal way to describe an in-house engine, and it has nothing to do with the old closed source vs open source debate.
Moreover, 99% of the audience on Steam doesn't know and care about that debate either.
We only want to get some people to try our game on Linux, that's all.

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Quoting: tfk...
More interesting I find the question what exactly needs testing?

I'm a developer and I can always appreciate precise parameters so I can focus on the important bits.

One thing I would want to test myself is how the game behaves on Fedora Linux.
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I'm glad you asked!
We're interested in the following:
1) Issues that seem OS-related. For this reason, just validating the basic functionality (if the game even starts at all) on as many distros as possible, especially anything that's not Manjaro or Ubuntu (used during dev). So Fedora would be great.
2) Issues that could be graphic drivers related. We did a good amount of testing on different GPU vendors and model for Windows, but not on Linux.
4) Trying on Steam Deck would be also very interesting, as we don't have one at the studio. But I foresee input problems with that one for the time being
3) In addition to that, any feedback about any aspect of the game itself will be very useful :)

A good way to report something, or simply tell us whether you like the game or not, is the Feedback page integrated in the game's main menu. Otherwise you can post something here, or contact us at "support at pixelrats.com"

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Quoting: Liam DaweI think it's more that just saying it's a "Proprietary engine" by itself isn't really a selling point, it doesn't really explain anything and to most people it won't really mean anything.

And no, no one expects games or the game engine to be open source at all.

Yeah, I guess it's true that to most people it wouldn't mean anything, but to other gamedev nerds like me it will :)
We might reword it to "Custom engine", and move it to a different section of the description to make it clearer.

I'll take this opportunity to mention a couple of details about the current version:

1) Intel video cards below IRIS (min spec on Steam) will probably have trouble running the game
2) Joypad support is not there for Linux yet, but we are working on it

Thanks to everybody who'll give it a go, it means a lot to us and all the info we gather will help improve the game.

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